The arrival of United States military personnel on rest-and-recreation breaks during the Second World War brought romance into the lives of many young New Zealand women, and a boom for the owners of clubs. This is Wellington’s Majestic Cabaret crowded with US marines and their girlfriends, around 1942.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, E. M. Alderdice Collection
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